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geometer
[ jee-om-i-ter ]
geometer
/ dʒɪˈɒmɪtə; dʒɪˌɒmɪˈtrɪʃən; ˌdʒiːəʊmɪ- /
noun
- a person who is practised in or who studies geometry
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Chief geometer Jean des Garets said the shrinking could have been caused by less rain this summer.
Like the ancient geometer Euclid, the neural net had somehow intuitively discerned a mathematical truth, but the logical “why” of it was far from obvious.
“When you try to build a curved object out of flat material, there’s always a fundamental tension,” said Keenan Crane, a geometer and professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
He used his stay in prison to reinvent the concept of a point at infinity, and combining it with Monge’s work, he became the first true projective geometer.
That feeling of mystical revelation — of a shimmering, underlying order that we can apprehend if we purify our perception — might explain the mutual affinity between poets and geometers.
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